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Photos: The Year's Most Inspiring Travel Films
In the spirit of Oscar season, we nominated six 2011 flicks that made us want to pack our bags and book a flight. See stills from the movies and the places where they were filmed.
Budget TravelFriday, Feb 17, 2012, 12:00 PMIn The Descendants, George Clooney plays a Honolulu lawyer who has to decide whether to cash in and sell his family's spread of virgin sand, lush mountains, and waterfalls to developers. (Merie Wallace)Budget Travel LLC, 2016

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Photos: The Year's Most Inspiring Travel Films

In the spirit of Oscar season, we nominated six 2011 flicks that made us want to pack our bags and book a flight. See stills from the movies and the places where they were filmed.

Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams stroll the grounds of Versailles in the Woody Allen comedy Midnight in Paris.

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Versailles was one of the many locations in and around Paris, including Notre-Dame and Sacre-Coeur, that made Midnight in Paris a moveable feast.

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The Hangover Part II finds the bad-luck bunch (Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifinakis, and Ed Helms, from left) headed to a wedding in Thailand's tropical Krabi.

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Melinda Sue Gordon

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The party-hardy crew from The Hangover Part II has an unfortunate encounter with a group of monks at the Ancient City's Phra Kaew Pavilion. It ends ugly, but fortunately the scenery never does.

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In The Way, Martin Sheen plays a father looking for solace after his son dies while walking the 450-mile Camino de Santiago in northern Spain.

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The Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimate route across the Pyrenees, passes through hamlets like Santa Marina de Valdeon in the film The Way.

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